Track-alining apparatus.



R. &' P. B. SHAW. TRACK ALINING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED MAY 23, 1908.

91 6,040. Patented Mai. 23, 1909.

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ROBERT SHAW AND FRANK B. SHAW, OF WARSAW, INDIANA.

. TRACK-AL INING APPARATUS.

No. 916,040. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented March 23, 1909.

Application filed May 23, 1908. Serial No. 434,696.

To all whom it may concern: nected at its outer end to the chain. When Be it known that we, ROBERT SHAW and the chain is tightened by means of the screw FRANK B. SHAW, citizens of theUnited States, the cam is turned to grip or clamp the rail residing at Warsaw, in the county of Kosbasev which thus holds the block and the ciusko and State of Indiana, have invented chain, enabling the pressure of the screw to certain new and useful Improvements in bend or shift the intermediate portion of the Track-Alining Apparatus, of which the folrail to the desired extent. By slacking the lowing is aspecification. chain the clamp can be readily detached. This invention is an apparatus for alining l Obviously other forms of clamps or attachrailway tracks, and has for its object to proment devices may be used for the same purvide an improved and simple device of the ose. Also the chains can be made any kind which can be readily attached to a track. ength desired. In use, the clamps can be section or rail and used'to set up the same or slipped under the rail between the ties, and to bend or force it to proper position with the screw when in position will bear laterally respect to the op osite rail. against the web of the rail and consequently The device wi 1 be found particularly useapply ressure thereto. This device may be ful in constructing and repairing railway ap lied to either side of the rail. tracks. e claim:

The invention is'illustrated in the accom- 1. The combination of a screw, a threaded panying drawings, in which, I head thereon, oppositely extending cables Figure 1 is a plan view of the apparatus. connected to said head, and clamps con- Fig. 2 is a detail in plan of a clamp to gri the nected to the cables.

rai. Fig. 3 isan end view of the 0 amp 2. The combination of ascrew, a threaded shown in Fig. 2. ,head thereon, o positely extending cables Referring specifically to the drawin s, 6 connected to sai head, and a clam at the indicates the ties and 7 the rails of a railway track.

The invention is shown applied to one of the rails. It comprises a large or heavy screw 8 having thereon a traveling head or nut 9 the opposite arms of which are connected by chains 10 to the rail at a distance from the screw. The foot of the screw bears against the web of the rail, and in order to turn the screw it is provided with a lever 11 and a ratchet 12, and may also have holes 13 in its head in which abar can be placed to turn the screw. The chains 10 are preferl ably provided with turn buckles 14 to take up the slack therein.

end of each cable, comprising a b ock recessed to receive a rail, and a cam ivoted on the block and connected to the ca le and arranged to grip the rail when the cable is tightened.

3. The combination of a screw having means at one end to turn the same, a head having a threaded hole through which the screw extends, oppositely extending cables connected to said head, and a clamp at the outer end of each cable comprising a block having an undercut projection at one edge to engage over one side of a rail base, and a cam lever pivoted near the opposite edge of the block and adapted to engage the other side A preferred means for connecting the outer of the rail base, the outer end of the lever beends of the chains to the track consistsof a 1 ing connected to the cable. block 15 flanged at one edge as at 16 to fit In testimony whereof we affix our signaon one side thereof, tures, in presence of two witnesses. and having at the other edge a cam 17, which ROBERT SHAW.

FRANK B. SHAW.

right part 19 at the outer side of the bloc Witnesses:

JAMns J. BABCOOK,

against the base of the rail, and it is con- NATHAN B. MQOONNELL. 

